Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-11
CONDENSED NEWS.

A famine is imminent throughout the Per
sian province of Khorassan.
The Russian duties on tobaccos, snuffs
increased.
The graduates of the naval academy at
Annapolis were presented with their diplomas
Friday by Secretary Whitney.
The pope will present Queen Victoria, in
honor of her jubilee, IA mosaic reproduction
of Raphacl's fresco, representing an allegor-
ical figure of poetry"
Complaints have been filed with the inter
state commerce commission against the ST.
Paul railroad of discriminating against small
Touring mills in Minnesota.
An apportionment has been made of the
100000 appropriated by the last congress for
the purchase of arms and equipments for the
! militia. Illinois gets sc, 276.
Herr Lalanze, member of the German
reichstag, who is charged with supporting
the French Patriotic league has been ordered
to leave Alsace within twenty four hours.
E. C. Palmer & Co, suspended dealers in
papers and printers materials at New Or
leans, have compromised with their creditors
at 80 per cent Their liabilities are $50, 1000.
Joseph Huderle formerly a schoolteacher
of Shelby county, Ohio, who is charged with
the ruin of twenty or thirty little girls who
who were under his care has been arrested
at Toledo.
The postmaster at Chicago has been in
structed to deny the facilities of the money
order and registered letter departments to
The Chicago Farm Journal, an alleged
fraudulent enterprise.
The town of Vernome. in Toorkisian, Asia,
has almost been destroyed by an earthquake.
One hundred aud twenty-five persons were
killed, and au equal number injured. The
shocks continue at intervals
The New England Mutual Life Insurance
| company has instituted civil proceedings
| against Milton c. Randall, ats former agent
at New Orleans, who is alleged to he de
faulter to the extent of $50 QUO
Evictions at Bodyke, ireland, continue and
are attended by the usual exciting scenes. 1t
took the sheriff and his posse the greater part
| of Friday to dislolge the O'Halleran family,
who deluged them with boiling water, and in
other ways made it very interesting for them,
The resistants were finally arrested.
Two thousand seven hundred and twenty
| eight immigrants were landed at Castle Garden
Friday. Counsel for the 1nmnn Steamship
company has applied for a writ of habeas
corpus in the case of the seventy Irish paupers
whose return 10 Ireland has been ordered by
| the emigrant commissioners at New York.
According to Land Commissioner Sparks,
the Burlington g. Missouri River railroad
received r6der former administrations Of the
land Office patents for two hundred thousand
acres more than it was entitled to under its
land grants. A suit for restitution is pend
Ing.
R. g. Dun g. Co.'S weekly business review
reports an Improvement both in crop reports
and the financial situation, and says that but
| for the labor troubles and excessive specula
| ton the outlook would be entirely satisfac
tory Money is in good supply at all points
and collections fair and improving, The
business failures in the United States and
| Canada for the seven days numbered 173
against 20J during the corresponding period
Of last year.